Common prawn
The common prawn is a familiar sight to anyone who has spent time exploring rockpools - particularly their characteristic quick dart into the darkness just as you spot them!
The common prawn is a familiar sight to anyone who has spent time exploring rockpools - particularly their characteristic quick dart into the darkness just as you spot them!
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
This National Marine Week, we are spotlighting the conservation work our Marine Team does for local habitats and species. Tune in to our live-streamed videos on Instagram to learn all about what…
Essex Wildlife Trust is calling for volunteers to get involved with monthly beach cleans
A sprawling, spiny evergreen, Common juniper is famous for its traditional role in gin-making. Once common on downland, moorland and coastal heathland, it is now much rarer due to habitat loss.…
Campaigns Assistant, Gemma, shares some of her most captivating marine encounters from tropical waters and how our local marine life might not be so different...
Despite its name, the "common" skate is not so common anymore. In fact, they are Critically Endangered.
Once considered a weed of cornfields, the Common poppy is now in decline due to intensive agricultural practices. It can be found in seeded areas, on roadside verges and waste ground, and in field…